2022-01-26 53 9
Wed 26 Jan 2022 in 53,9: 53.6837313, 9.9738293 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
on a communal playground in Norderstedt-Garstedt, Schleswig-Holstein
Participants
Plans
π π π
Going there by train. Good location for MikroKosmos, if he's still active.
- MikroKosmos: Yes, perhaps I will go there after work.
MikroKosmos
"Pass by there, after work - before it gets dark."
Expedition
π π π
Since MikroKosmos had not written when he would arrive, I planned to go there at hash o'clock (4 pm), which is also near the end of a usual workday, I think. I took three trains to Garstedt and then cycled the last 1.2 km to the hash, arriving at 15:57. It lay on the grass on/next to a playground belonging to an apartment building, 7 m from a public path, and was freely accessible. No one was there. I located the coordinates and took some photos with my Hashhogs. A slippery balance beam was situated only a few metres from the geohash, don't think I've seen that before on a playground. The cold wind was biting my skin when I had my gloves off, so I went and collected some sticks to spell XKCD on the ground, should MikroKosmos arrive later. A few residents noticed me, but nobody seemed to care about me decorating their communal lawn. I waited around for a while, checking the wiki and listening to my audiobook, but at 4:30 it seemed like my hands were about to freeze off and I headed back. I spent some time at Herold-Center shopping mall, where Garstedt station is located, warming my fingers, reading in books, and looking for a new jersey before checking the wiki again and then taking the trains home.
MikroKosmos
N53° 41.024 E009° 58.430
After work, I went with the train to Bönningstedt and with a bus towards the hash-site. Accidentally I left the bus one station too early, so I had to walk the distance of 2 stations (800m).
I arrived at site around 16:50, where I found on the lawn the wooden mark "XKCD", that π π π created. What a wonderful sign! And the mark was quite well at the hash-coordinates.
I shot some photos as it started getting dark and just 30 meters away I found the geocache "Corona Zeitvertreib", too. After that, I walked to Garstedt, where my next bus departed a while later.
This was the first time, I used public transportation for hashing. :-)
This wasn't the first time, I missed π π π. :-(
Photos
π π π
will follow shortly (7 pictures)
MikroKosmos
Achievements
π π π
Land geohash, Bicycle geohash, Public transport geohash
MikroKosmos
Land geohash, Public transport geohash